Reel for vending elastic webbing.



UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

.FRANK H. FRISSELL, OF MIDDLETOWN, CONNECTICUT, ASSIGNOR TO THE RUSSELL MANUFACTURING C0., OF MIDDLETOWN, CONNECTICUT, A COREORATION.

` REEL FOR VENDING LASTIC WEBBING.

To all whom t may concern.'

Be it known that I, lFRANK H. FRIssELL, a citizen"of the United States, residing at Middletown, in the county ot' Middlesex and `State of Connecticut, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Reels `for Vending Elastic lVebbing; and I do hereby declare the following, when taken in connection with. the accompanying drawings and the characters of reference marked thereon,to be a iull,clear, and exact description of the same, and which said drawings constitute part of this application, and represent, in-

Figure l a plan view of a vending reel constructed in accordance with my invention. Figi 2 a detached view of the rotary.

core ot the. device together with its skeletonized centering-disk and handle. Fig. 3 a reverse View thereof. Fig. 4 an edge View of the reel. Fig., 5 a View thereof in horizontal section.A Fig. 6 a view of the reel in transverse section on the line a-J of Fig. l.

My invention relates to an improved reel for vending elastic webbing, ribbon and braidthe object being to provide a simple, cheap and convenient reel for confining and protecting webbing, ribbon, braid, etc., so as to enable the retailer to keep the articles from being mussed or soiled until the last yard is sold.

NVith these ends in view my invention consists in a vendingl reel having certain details of construction and combinations of parts as will be hereinafter described and particularly recitedin the claims.

In carrying out my invention as herein shown, I employ a skeletonized centeringdisk 2 made of heavy pasteboard or equivalent material and secured to a wooden core or spool 3 so as to be concentric therewith, in any convenient manner such by small tacks 4 driven thereinto. The said centering-disk 2 corresponds in external diameter' to the internal diameter of a circular paperbox 5 within the edge of which it fits so as to ride thereupon as shown in Fig. 6, whereby the core 3 is always maintained properly centered within the box. The said core 3 corresponds in width to the depth of the box which conforms to the width of the webbing, ribbon or braid 6 which it is de- Specication of Letters Patent. Application `filed .Tune 3, 1912. Serial No. 701,369.

Patented Sept. 3, 1912.

signed. to wind upon the core. A staple-like wire handle 7` has its ends driven into the core 3 and :provides for rotating the same as required for winding the webbing, ribbon or braid thereupon.' The said box 5 is furnished with a circular paper cover 8 the' flange of which, as shown, is nearly, but not quite as wide as the box is deep. This cover is formed with a large concentric, circular opening 9 for the partial exposure of the contents of the reel through sight-openings 10 formed in the centering-disk 2 on opposite sides of the center' thereof, these openings 10 being large enough to expose a por tion of the core 3 and the inner coils vof the webbing, ribbon or braid 6, so that the character and color thereof may be determined at a glance, as well as substantially the amount thereof left in the reel at any given time;

To protect the webbing, ribbon or braid from being soiled in handling the reel as well 'as to exclude dust and dirt from the reel, I place a transparent disk 11 of celluloid or equivalent material between the core 3 and the skeletonized centering-disk 2 so as to be held in place by the tacks 4, the said disk l1 being large enough to extend beyond the outer edgesof the sight-openings l0 in 'the said centering-disk 2. Alineid slots 12 and 13 formed in the flanges-ot the box 5 and cover 8 provide for the egress of the outer' end 14 of the coil of webbing, ribbon or braid upon the said core 3.

I claim 1- l.' In a vending reel for webbing, ribbon, braid, etc., the combination with a box, of a cover therefor provided with an opening, a core located within the said box and provided with a handle, a centering-disk secured to the said core and centering the same in the box, and formed with one or more sight-openings, and a sheet ottransparent material applied to the said disk forl protecting the contentsotl the reel and excluding the dust therefrom.

2. In a vending reel for webbing, ribbon, braid, etc., the combination with a box, ot` a cover therefor provided with a sightopening, a core located within the said box, a centering-disk secured to the said core and centering the same within the box and formed with one or more sight-openings, a In testimony whereof, I have signec'i this sheet of transparent material extending specication in the presence of two subscrbover the said sightA opening or openings to ing Witnesses. exclude dust from the box, and a handle en- FRANK H. FRISSELL.

5 tering the box through the said opening in Nitnessesz the cover and provdlng for rotating the SCHUYLER J. TAYLOR,

core. RICHARD C. FAGAN. 

